We are now about halfway through the Spring anime season of 2013, and for weeks now I have been bombarded with the question, "What anime should I be watching this season? " Well, with a good chunk of episodes under my belt from many of the differe...

An official press release from Namco revealed the specs for the new J-World Tokyo indoor theme park on Monday. The Shonen Jump magazine-themed theme park will be on the third floor of the Sunshine City World Import Mart Building in Tokyo's Ikebuku...

"Aoi Minase, a boy whose dreams were shattered has returned to his hometown of Kazegaura where there, on top of a hill lined with windmills, he encounters a wheelchair-bound girl, Kotori Hanabe, and a large, white glider soaring through the sky.

Atlus re-imagined Etrian Odyssey and created a detail story for New Etrian Odyssey: Millennium Girl. The tale begins when you meet Frederica, an amnesiac girl inside a ruin. Simon Yorke wants to solve the mystery behind the ruin so he shares a goa...

Its that time again where we go for a photo walk around my most fave place on Earth - Akihabara ^o^ Today we visit places such as Hobby Tengoku, Sega Game center, Toranoana, Animate, Don Quijote, Melon Books (newly opened 2号店), Sofmap, Kotobukiya,...

NIS America have released a new trailer for Time and Eternity, the anime RPG by Imageepoch that they're bringing to the West this year. The character you play as, Princess Toki, happens to have an alter-ego named Towa.

This morning, Capcom announced that Ace Attorney 5 is being released in the West as a download-only title via the Nintendo eShop. Titled Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney – Dual Destinies, the game is slated for release in the West this Fall.

The Mobile Suit Gundam Unicorn OVAs will be having a North American home video release, thanks to Right Stuf. Four volumes will be released on DVD, each containing two epsides, except for the fourth volume, which will contain the seventh episode p...

After having posted the worst losses in its history and sacking its CEO, Square Enix has announced its new focus will be social games. Its final balance sheet for the last fiscal year showed an operating loss of 6 billion yen – the first time sinc...

Since he did not reveal himself on the day he enlisted, many wondered what Super Junior's Yesung looked with his military haircut. But fans got their first look of the idol and his new look thanks to the 35th division in Jeolla Province's website.

We've already revealed the opening movie and the main characters of Acquire's upcoming PS Vita game. Now, we finally get to see some fancy gameplay footage. MIND≒0 is an RPG developed by Acquire (Akiba's Trip) and ZeroDiv (Class of Heroes) centere...

Dōjinshi manga author Takeshi Nogami (Strik Witches: The Witches of Africa) has released the first chapter of Marine Corp Yumi in English on Sai-Zen-Sen. His new manga follows Yumi, who is an ordinary Japanese high school student.

Fans of the iconic manga periodical Weekly Shonen Jump should be clearing their schedules and marking down July 11 on their calendars. For on this day, the clouds will part and a shaft of light will appear as the doors to a new manga paradise will...

On May 13th, TV Tokyo announced that they will be adapting the manga 'LIMIT' by Suenobu Keiko ('LIFE') into a drama starring actress Sakuraba Nanami (20) for the upcoming summer season. 'LIMIT' has been serialized in the manga magazine 'Bessatsu F...

The Saudi Arabian television program Hawatel Kaizen (a combination of the Arabic word for "thoughts" and the Japanese for "improvement") is a series of reports by Arabic reporters in which they share things they have been impressed by in Japan.

Perfume "Magic of Love" Short PV Perfume has released the short version of their music video for the upcoming eighteenth single "Magic of Love". Really like how they played with visual tricks in the music video.

After first being announced late last year -- and drawing much attention for its focus on older anime titles as well as its adoption of a Kickstarter-alike model for home video release -- AnimeSols officially began operations yesterday with its sl...

Attack on Titan is a hot topic among the anime community. It has inspired parody videos of its opening theme and tons of anime shops in Japan even have their own Attack on Titan display. And now, concept artist Kouji Tajima has ridden the wave by ...

Capcom Europe's YouTube channel posted the English trailer of Ace Attorney 5, which is renamed in the West as Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney - Dual Destinies. The game will be released digitally in North America and Europe for the Ninento 3DS this f...

Last night, AKB48 and JKT48 member Takajo Aki announced that she would be holding an urgent special event on Ameba's AmebaStudio service called JKT48 Takajo Aki Kinkyuu Kikoku Tokuban ("JKT48 Takajo Aki Urgent Homecoming Special")("JKT48 Takajo Ak...

Conceptual Poster for Live-Action Attack on Titan There is absolutely no news that "Attack on Titan (進撃の巨人)" is being adapted into a live-action movie, but conceptual designer Kouji Tajima has created the awesome unofficial poster above.

New version of Square Enix's sequel game for PS3, Xbox 360 to include all DLC, "Lost Report" videos Game developer Square Enix announced on Monday that it will release the Final Fantasy XIII-2 Digital Contents Selection video game in Japan for the...

Puzzle & Dragons has been a huge hit for GungHo Online Entertainment. The game generates millions of dollars in revenue every day in Japan alone. It's a phenomenal success and GungHo Online have rapidly expanded in recent years, acquiring develope...